
Bravehearts
Whistle-Blowing in the Age of Snowden
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Narrated by:
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Reid Armbruster
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By:
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Mark Hertsgaard
About this listen
Whistleblowers pay with their lives to save ours. When insiders like former NSA analyst Edward Snowden, ex-FBI agent Coleen Rowley, or Big Tobacco truth-teller Jeffrey Wigand blow the whistle on high-level lying, lawbreaking or other wrongdoing - whether it's government spying, corporate murder, or scientific scandal - the public benefits enormously. Wars are ended, deadly products are taken off the market, white-collar criminals are sent to jail. The whistleblowers themselves, however, generally end up ruined. Nearly all of them lose their jobs - and in many cases their marriages and their health - as they refuse to back down in the face of increasingly ferocious official retaliation. That moral stubbornness despite terrible personal cost is the defining DNA of whistleblowers. The public owes them more than we know.
In Bravehearts, Hertsgaard tells the gripping, sometimes darkly comic and ultimately inspiring stories of the unsung heroes of our time. A deeply reported, impassioned polemic, Bravehearts is a book for citizens everywhere - especially students, teachers, activists and anyone who wants to make a difference in the world around them.
©2016 Mark Hertsgaard (P)2016 Audible, Inc.What listeners say about Bravehearts
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- Anonymous User
- 28-06-2025
An interesting and important insight into whistle blowing
Very interesting to learn about whistleblowing which is such a murky field! It is very difficult for governments to find the right balance between encouraging publication of illegal, corrupt and inappropriate actions versus the protection of important state information and secrets which might directly impact people on the ground. It is clear there is clearly no one size fits all approach! Very well narrated too!
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